Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-05-09
IN THE BATH ROOM.
A CLEAN OLD CUSTOM HANDED
DOWN FROM ANTIQUITY.

The Various styles of Baths. Their His
tory and Characteristics-The Primi-
tive Bath-Turlxish and Russian Baths.
The Mud Bath.
The bath is as old as the hills. 1t comes
down from the most remote antiquity.
The Egyptians used to bathe in the Nile.
The Hebrews made bathing compulsory
by law, and the Mohammedans and Him
docs enforce it as a duty of religion.
Public baths were among the public insti-
tutions Of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks
and Romans If pharaoh's lovely
daughter hadn't gone bathing in the Nile
Moses might never have been discovered
in the bullrushes. If Nausicaa and her
fair companions had not bathed them
selves in the waters Of the sea the ship
wrecked Ulysses might never have been
rescued. So it viii be seen that the bath
is hoary, venerable and patriarchal
But the primitive bath was simple
process compared with the elaborate bath
of modern times. 1t was merely n
plunge into the limpid water Of some
flowing stream. Now the bath is scien-
tiflc process, presided over by competent
attendants and regulated by the watch
and the thermometer. The bath most
popular with the American people, bar
ring, of course, the domestic tub, is the
Turkish bath. Why it is called Turk
ish'' surpasseth all understanding. It is
probably, though, because the Turks re-
cline in ,panost luxuriant bath in perfumed
water, while about the edges of the mar
BILE basin grow fragrant flowers and bloom
ing rose trees, filling the apartment with
their ravishing scent. The Turkish bath
was first introduced into England about
the middle of the COS by a noble.nan,
David Urquhart by name, who had re-
ceived the impression in the Orient This
country adopted the Turkish bath about
twenty years ago.
TAKING A TURKISH BATH.
Have you ever taken Turkish bath?
No? Then, in the language of Edwin
Forrest, you shave never risen to the dig
nifty Of being personally clean.n
When you go to Turkish bath house
you first enter the Office, where You regis
ter deposit your valuables and receive
check for them Then you pass into the
muctaly 'Muctalyn must be the Turk
for cool room. AT anyrate muctaly is the
cool room. In one of the numerous com
partments of this apartment you disrobe
and invest yourself in bathing garment,
then you pass into the warm room, tho
tepidanum, they call it, where you en-
counter q temperature of 120 to l40 degs.
Fahrenheit. Here you recline'on a couch
until the perspiration is freely started.
When the skin has become sufficiently
soft and moist-the attendant frequently
passes his hand over the body to ascertain
if it has arrived at the proper state-you
are ushered into the hot room, which is
plain English for the calidanum, as the
apartment is called, where the temperature
is 10 degs. higher than in the warm room.
In the hot room the attendants lay you
upon a heated marble slab, and the
perspiration becomes more and more pro-
fuse, while the attendant thoroughly
manipulates the body with o towel. From
this room you pass into a still hotter hot
room, where the temperature is go to $40
degrees. You perspire few more times
in this room, when you are conducted into
the shampooing room, where enough tepid
water is sprinkled over you to remove the
perspiration. Then you are stretched out
upon another marble slab and receive
another manipulation The wind up con-
sists in the attendant thoroughly washing
the body with Iather of soap and water,
sprinkling the bather over with a tepid
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the swimming bath.
THE RUSSIAN BATH.
The Russian bath is so called because
the Russians from long ago have indulged
in hot vapor bath The Russian bath
differs from the Turkish bath in this
essential particular: In Russian bath
the room is filed with hot vapor; in the
Turkish bath the room is filed with hot
air.
| The Russian bath is attaining popa-
larity with the busy, bustling American
| people for the reason that it doesn't take
long A Russian bath can be taken in O
| quarter the time that it requires for a
/ Turkish bath. a comparatively new idea
| In baths is the electric bath. This is a
medicated bath prescribed for neuralgia,
rheumatism and all forms Of nervous dis
/ orders. The batheTs enter bath tub,
around the inside of which ere a number
of electric buttons. During the BATH a
current Of electricity is turned into the
water through these conductors from a
battery, manipulated by an attendant.
/ The sensation, instead Of being unplca-
SAINT, or producing a shock such a. con-
! tlct ith a battery produces, is said to De
one of intense delight.
The mud bath is INDUCED in almost en-
/ tire1y SIS a remedy for blood disorders.
The bather is placed in hath tub and
covered up to the chin with a thick coat-
ing of heated mud. As one coating ccols
or fresh warm coating is applied. This
heated mud is supposed TO act as poul-
tice and draw out the impurities Of the
/ system. There is one peculiarly about
the Turkish bath that is not generally
known, and that is its influence to pre-
serve the equilibrium Of the bather's